New on CTAN: fretplot
Date: September 10, 2025 7:20:38 AM CEST
Soumendra Ganguly submitted the
fretplot
package.
Version: 0.0.1 2025-09-09
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Create scale and chord diagrams for guitar-like instruments
Announcement text:
The fretplot LuaTeX package provides batch generation of scale and chord diagrams for plucked string instruments, such as the guitar. - Flexible & Automated: Highly customizable and automatable via simple, powerful file formats for describing fretboard diagrams. Easily generate batches of diagrams. - Attractive Defaults: Comes with sensible, visually appealing default settings. - Music Theory Aware: Includes easy-to-use LaTeX macros that understand music theory. Render guitar scale diagrams by specifying the musical scale or scale type via built in macros or directly via degree, pitch class, or interval formulae.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/fretplot The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/fretplot/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
The fretplot LuaTeX package provides batch generation of scale and chord diagrams for plucked string instruments, such as the guitar. - Flexible & Automated: Highly customizable and automatable via simple, powerful file formats for describing fretboard diagrams. Easily generate batches of diagrams. - Attractive Defaults: Comes with sensible, visually appealing default settings. - Music Theory Aware: Includes easy-to-use LaTeX macros that understand music theory. Render guitar scale diagrams by specifying the musical scale or scale type via built in macros or directly via degree, pitch class, or interval formulae.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/fretplot The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/fretplot/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
fretplot – Create scale and chord diagrams for guitar-like instruments
This LuaLaTeX package provides batch generation of scale and chord diagrams for plucked string instruments, such as the guitar.
- Flexible and Automated: Highly customizable and automatable via simple, powerful file formats for describing fretboard diagrams. Easily generate batches of diagrams.
- Attractive Defaults: Comes with sensible, visually appealing default settings.
- Music Theory Aware: Includes easy-to-use LaTeX macros that understand music theory. Render guitar scale diagrams by specifying the musical scale or scale type via built-in macros or directly via degree, pitch class, or interval formulae.
| Package | fretplot |
| Version | 0.0.1 2025-09-09 |
| Copyright | 2025 Soumendra Ganguly |
| Maintainer | Soumendra Ganguly |